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The Times-Recorder is the ONLY paper in the Third Congressional District with Associated Press Service. IHIRTY-NINTH TEAR. ‘ten loan” MORE THIN HALF DMHHIBED WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 15. The Liberty Loan has been oversub scribed many hundred million dollars. Treasury officials estimated this morn ing that before the books finally close that the total subscriptions will be at least $2,500,000,000. The loan, according to reports re ceived by treasury officials, is in every sense a ppoular one. By far the great, est issues which the Bureau of Print ing and Engraving will be called upon to turn out will be the SSO and SIOO bonds. For them there has been an extremely heavy demand in every in dustrial section of the country and in many rural communities. The city of Washington, officials estimate, wil! marshal 30,000 individual subscriptions, most of them for the SSO and SIOO bonds. Employes of the treasury de partment alone subscribing to the SSO and SIOO bonds have taken approxi mately $450,000. Measuring the total by the number of Liberty loan buttons which have gone out from headquarters, the num her of subscribers should exceed 3,- 000,000. More than 4,000,000 buttons will have been distributed before the three chief button factories of the country, working night and day, catch up with their orders several days hence. The small investor is to be favored above all others, and every applica tion for a small bond is to be granted. In the case of over-subscription, this would result in paring down the larger subscriptions on a proportionate basis, as announced by Secretary Mc- Adoo. Throughout the country the banks last night kept open till late to accom modate the last minute investor. The treasury department has granted banks permission in extreme cases to tele graph the amount of their subscrip tions to their reserve banks, telegraph ing the two per cent, of the total at the same time, but all subscriptions to be counted, must have reached the reserve banks not later than noon to day. The exact total of subscriptions from every source may not be known for seme time after the closing of the books, because of the tremendous amount of clerical work involved in assembling returns and making tabu lations. New York estimates that it will be able to report its total not later than 8 oclock tonight. In the case of other reserve banks, the delay may be greater. NEW YORK, June 15.—The initial transaction in Liberty latan bond trad in.. which began on the New York stock exchange today, was above par. A lot of SIO,OOO sold at par and 1-50 above par. Atlanta District Took $50,000,000. ATLANTA. Ga., June 15.—1 t is es timated that the total Liberty Loan subscriptions in the Atlanta federal reserve district will amount to be tween forty and fifty millions. The district allotment was sixty millions. Total May 000,000 WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 15.—At 3 30 this afternoon it is estimated that the total Liberty Loan subscriptions maj soar to three billion dollars. Ev ery federal reserve district, with the possible exceptions of the Atlanta and Kansas City districts, appear to have exceeded the minimum allottment. BRITT CRAIG MAY BE AMONG FIRST TO BEACH FRENCH FRONT ATLANA. Ga.. June 15.—Britt Craig, an Atlanta newspaper reporter, will be ( , ne of the first Southern newspaper men to reach the fighting front in France. He has joined the ambulance ccmpany being organized by Dr. Wal pole Brewer, of this city, under the auspices of Yaarab Temple Shriners, who have bought an ambulance, and probably will get to the trenches in advance of the national guard or any >f the student officers now in training port McPherscn. Eight or ten At - i.-inta newspaper men are in the school for officers. CHARLESTON LAWYER IS SHIPPING BOARD COUNSEL WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15—Al fred Huger, of Charleston, S. C., a lawyer by profession, was today ap pointed admiralty counsel for the fed eral shipping board. Chairman Den man, in announcing the appointment, said it was another instance' of a man cf large affairs putting aside persona, interests to serve the government. —————— CITY COURT WILL CONVENE ON MONDAY The June term of the City Court of Americus will convene on Monday, June 18th, Judge W. M. Harper presid ing. In view of the fact that the an nual convention of the Georgia Coun ty Officers’ association occurs on Wed nesday and Thursday of next week, Judge Harper, after convening his court on Monday morning, will, take a recess until Saturday, June 23rd, when the appearance docket will be called and the civil calendar for the term arranged. The criminal calendar will be ar ranged tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock, when all attorneys interested in cases to be tried at this term are requested by Judge Harper to be in attendance. BASEBALL SUIT IS TAKEN DDT DE COURT PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 15. The suit of the Baltimore Federal Baseball club against the officers and directors of the National commission, generally known as "Organized Bal!” was dismissed here today, on motion of counsel for the plaintiff. The suit was brought shortly after the disso lution of the Federal league, and much interest centered in the outcome of the action. Stuart S. Janney, a director of the Baltimore club and its chief counsel, announced in court toady that fol- Jowing a conference of plaintiff’s coun sel last night, it was decided to dis continue the case. He said later he was convinced there exists no organ ized baseball conspiracy as the suit had charged. Representatives of both sides to the controversy stated there had been --o settlement effected out of court the de cision of the plaintiff to withdraw the suit being purely voluntary, and de void of any ocnsideration offered bv the defendant. Men prominent in baseball affairs regard the action of the Baltimore l «ople as a distinct vindication of or ganiz.ed baseball. The suit resulted from the peace agreement concluded between the directors of the Federal league and representatives of organiz ed baseball. GELDERS DISRIBUTING NEW PATRIOTIC MOTTO ATLANTA. Ga., June 15.—A button with a picture of a farmer carrying Old Glory nailed to his plow handles, and bearing the motto, ‘‘Nail a Flag to Your Plow and Serve Your Country by Raising Food Crops,” is being widely j distributed throughout Georgia and | ther Southern states by Isidor Gelders. editor of the Fitzgerald Leader-Enter prise, of Fitzgerald, Ga. The motto was originated at a mass meeting of farm ers held at Fitzgerald several weeks ago and immediately gained wide cir culation, as it struck exactly the right note of patriotism for the men upon whom the country is dependent for its food supply. EIGHT FRENCH SHIPS SUNK DURING WEEK PARIS, June 15 —Four Frencn ships of more than 1.600 tons, one un der that size and three fishing vessels were sunk either by mines or subma rines during the week ending June 4th, the admiralty announced today. Six ships were unsuccessfully attaek ed by submarines. RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS I AMER«®®«OROER MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15, 1917 PERSHING WILL VISIT FRONT TO VIEW CONDITIONS l PARIS, June 15.—Although General Pershing’s first day in Paris was nat urally filled to overflowing with soc ial affairs, he managed to utilize odd moments for business. It is understood this afternoon that he will leave soon for an extended [ tour of the front. Pershing and the members of his staff visited the avia tion field today and expressed frank astonishment at the feats performed r* in mid-air by French aviators. ’ Paris has opened its arms to Gen Pershing and his staff and welcomed them with a\ outburst of spontaneous enthusiasm such as only Paris is ca pable of. No conquering hero return- • ing home could have hoped for or re ’ ceived such a tremendous reception as 1 greeted the American commander as ’ his automobile sped through hun : dreds of thousands of cheering people. Paris and particularly the French authorities had planned and hoped for a great reception, but it is doubtful ’ if even the most optimistic pictured ’ the almost frantic crowds that all but 1 blocked the progress of the automo ‘ biles. Men and women cheered them selves hoarse and flung masses of flow ers into the cars. Parisians declare that the only event in their life-time that approximates the reception en- • thusiasm was that accorded to King George of England in 1914. ARMED BRITISHER SUNK ♦ 1 WEDNESDAY IN NORTH SEA > 1 ♦ LONDON, June 15.—The Brit- ♦ ,-A ish armed merchant cruiser ♦ ’ * Avenger, was torpedoed and 4 i 4- sunk in the North Sea Wednesday * t 4 night. All on board except one ♦ - * were saved. ♦ X——■ - bTORM DIO MUCH DIKE IHMSMT t Considerable damage to crops, roads, , telegraph and telephone lines and . railroad property was caused by the storm which swept over this section , jesterday afternoon. The rainfall, which was unusually heavy, was accompanied by high winds and considerable electric dis . turbance, which put the commercial . and lighting circuits of the Americus Lighting Company out of commission i for a short period of time. I _ Several telephone poles along the [ Dixie Highway just north of the city were blown down and telegraph and telephone service was badly demoraliz ed for several hours. The mill dam at McMath’s mill. , i about 3 miles west of Americus, gave i way as the result of the heavy vol ume of water rushing into the pond . from the tributary streams. The en tire dam was swept away, although ( the mill itself was undamaged. About 75 feet of the Central of Geor gia tracks were undermined by the ! About 75 feet of the Central of Geor gia tracks were undermined by the water near the old Yirginia-Carolina , plant at the northern boundary of the city, but although freight service was , temporarily interrupted, workmen soon had the damage repaired. The city streets this morning; were cleared of the accumulation of mud and debris washed down by the deluge I which poured through the gutters and! choked the storm sewers. At the cor-] ner of Lee and Church streets the sediment of mud was three inches ccep. Conciderable crop damage is report led in this immediate section, although it is not expected that the loss will be serious. The worst of the storm pass ed northwest of Americus. A gin house on the plantation of AV. J. Williamson on the Friendship road, ! was biown down during the storm. • while on W. T. McMath’s place, about ■ 4 miles west of Americus, a barn col ■! lapsed, more or less seriously injur ■jing three mules which were sheltered | inside the structure. 4 ALL PRISONERS TAKEN IN ♦ ♦ IRISH UPRISING TO GO FREE ♦ + + *■ LONDON, June 15.—1 t was an- 4 ♦ nounced in the house of com- 4- 4- mons today that the government 4 + has decided to release all prison- ♦ ♦ ers taken in the Irish rebellion ♦ ♦ of Easter Sunday a year ago. It ♦ 4- was further stated that all Irish 4- 4 political prisoners of every class ♦ are to lie released in accord- 4- ♦ ance with the decision. ♦ ♦ 4- 4- 4- ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦ RED CfIDSS WILL START CAMPAIGN HERE ON MONDAY Practically every business house in Americus has offered its financial and moral support to the Red Cross cam paign which begins all over the United States Monday the 18th. The campaign is to extend over the entire week end ing June 25th, and all interests ar) united in an effort to over-subscribe the $100,000,000 now needed by the Red Cross war council for their relief work. The Americus merchants are to help by giving five per cent, of their entire cash business for one day of this week to the local Red Cross chapter. Sev eral of the business houses, each in a different line of business, are to con duct Red Cross sales each day, to be listed under direction of the executive committee of the Red Cross chapter. The list for Monday. June 18th, is as follows: Sparks Grocery Company. Morgan & Company. Ansley’s. Rylander Shoe Co. Allison Furniture Co. J. W. Harris Hwde. Co. Prather-Ansley Drug Co. An earnest appeal is made to the l>eople of Americus and Sumter county to trade with the above named business houses on Monday, June 18th. Whether or not you carry your account and de business with some other house, you arc expected to change for the one day and pay cash. This is one way of helping a worthy and noble cause with cut any cost whatever to the public generally. You are asked, urged, and it is your patriotic duty to fill your pantry, your] wardrobe, your home, your medicine I chest and your cigar case with a six ; months’ supply during this week. The full list of business houses, with ] the days on which they wili conduct) Red Cross sales, will be published in ■ Sunday s Times-Recorder. This is no time for any man to say, ] I Well, so many calls have been made) lon my pocketbook that I don’t feel as] if I could afford to give to the Red | Cross. This is an inopportune call.’ ] Well. we. say to that man, “My friend, I the whole war is inopportune. It is] inopportune that millions of brave men, are dying or suffering that we may re-1 main a nation, not a.German province.. It is inopportune that millions of wo-. men and children are miserable and] i hojieless and starving. Also a German ) I governor-general of occupied Ameri-; levs would be rather inopportune." Americus and Sumter county are ex ) pected to raise SIO,OOO of the SIOO-j (100.000 required for immediate needs of Red Cross. We must contribute lib- i erally. RED CROSS EXECUTIVE COMMIT TEE. AMERICUS BO! NOW ON BOARD SUPPLY SHIP / Harry Williams, who left Americus six weeks ago to enter the yeoman ser vice of the U. S. Navy, has recently finished his course of instruction at the yeomans’ training school at Newport. R 1., and has been transferred to the paymaster's office of the U. S. S. “Ful • ton.” a supply ship belonging to the South Atlantic submarine New London. Conn., is his home port and it is thought that the Fulton will re main in American waters. INDICATIONS OF GFRMANRETREAT ON WEST FRONT NEW YORK, June 15—The British campaign in Belgium gives signs to day of developing into one of the most important of the war. The Germans, apparently, are unable to resist the pressure being directed against them, and are being forced back at a com paratively rapid date. Today brings announcement of an other British gain of five hundred to a thousand yards on a front of seven miles, while correspondents at the front reports signs of a probable ad ditional German retreat. The German offiical statement ad mits a German retirement at two j oints in Belgium. The British statement says today's attack in Belgium resulted in their capturing one big gun. seven machine guns and 150 prisoners. The domi nance of the British artillery seems almost wholly responsible for the Ger man retirement. ( HINESE BRIBE-TAKERS FIRED BY UI YI AN-HINU PEKING, June 15.—Two high Chi nese officials, Chen Chin-tao, minister or finance, and Yin Ju-lien. vice-minis ter in the same department, are seek- ] ing new jobs here today, following tl.e disclosures of a bribery scandal in vhich they were implicated. The vice minister when called before President Li Yuan-hung, admitted that the fin ance department had accepted SIOO,OOO (gold) from a syndicate which put forward a scheme last Januanry for buying and melting brass coins. Presi dent Li investgated the charges. Then he issued a mandate dismissing the officials Criminal proceedings may be instituted against them. 155,000 111 BONDS TAKEN IN COUNTY Sumter county’s subscriptions to the “Liberty Loan” amounted to $55,000. according to figures gathered from the various banking institutions of Ameri-1 cus. Plains and Leslie. The final returns on bond subscrip | tions were sent in to the federal re ] serve bank in Atlanta, headquarters I tor the sixth district, fast night, since I the books closed today at noon, and it I was necessary that ail subscriptions Ibe in the hands of the reserve banks at that time. The "Liberty jLoan” campaign in I |this county was in the hands of a] I committee composed of bankers repre-1 ] seating their respective sections, the] I members being , Frank Lanier. Frank ; ; Sheffield, L. G. Council. R. S. Oliver j ] of Plains, and W. T. Anderson, of Les i lie. Much publicity has been given to > the "Liberty Bond” campaign and al special effort made by the committee, vith the co-operation of the business I men jpnerally, to place the bonds i” ]tbe hands of the small investors. Americus subscribed for $50,050.] | Plains $4,000 and Leslie $750. OVERTON. FIRST STUDENT OFFICER TO LOSE I LIMIU ATLANTA; Ga., June 15.—Having lost a lerr in a street car collision in I front of the entrance to Fort McPher-) son. Edward B. Overton, of Mobile, Ala., who was a student officer at the, tiaining school, will never see the bat-1 tiefields of France, but he has gained I the distinction at the post hospital ot) being one of the nerviest men the sur | geons have ever seen on the oprating ■ table, and his fellow student officers ] have tried to overcome his disappoint-] ment by making themselves especially | nice to him in many little ways. Over ton's friends in Mobile and in other parts of Alabama, where he was a fa mous college athlete, have deluged hin. with letters and telegrams of sympa thy. CONDENSED MILK SENT TD GERMANY WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15.—Ger. man agents bought large quantities ol condensed milk in the United States and shipped it to Germany through neutral ports recently, the w’ar com mittee of the condensed milk industry informed the department of commerce today. The milk was bought at retail stores in order to avoid suspicion. FAIR STOCKHOLDERS WILL MEET TONIGHT Tonight at 8 o’clock at the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, the I stockholders of the Third Agricultural District Fair association will hold a meeting at which business of vital im portance will be transacted. Proxies have been sent out to all stockholders in order that there may be no question of illegality in the dis position of such business as may come before the meeting. The election of new officers and di rectors will constitute one of the most important features of the session, while reports will be received from the various retiring officers. A large attendance of stockholders i< most essential. SEASON OF EARLY PEACHES AT END FORT VALLEY, Ga.. June 15.—The peach season of the year 1917 is now in full swing. The season of the early peaches will close the’ first of next week. After this the growers will be gin marketing the very popular Geor gia and Hiley Belles, along with the Early Belles, which will come first. The early varieties have brought an exceedingly good price this year. Tha color of the early peaches was the nest in the history of the peach industry The size, while in some instances not so very great as a standard, was of the size that makes a pretty and attractive crate, ’lhe growers are perfectly sat isfied with the prices they are receiv ing for their peaches this year. The rices for the early varieties have rang ed anywhere from $1.75 to $2.75 per. ■ c rate. The damage that was done in Craw-) ford county was very great and there) will not be one-half as many cars of] peaches shipped from that portion of the peach belt as normally. This means I that the growers in this immediate sec-| tion will receive more for their peaches j at they will be the only growers who] I «;11 have peaches on the market at | | this time in the state. f J. L. Wilson, one of the largest] (growers in this section of the state,] ' has one of the largest crops in this I ]>lacc. or county. His orchards are at 'ail times kept in the very best of con dition. and he personally supervises I the i»roduclng and marketing it his ' fruit. He has on his farm 100.000 trees. | He estimates his crop for this year to be near one hundred cars. He has al ready shipped ten cars of the early va rieties. for which he received a verv encouraging price. It is generally es- ' timated that there will be shipped from I this state some 3,000 cars, or in the mighborhood of 4.000 cars. 4 WEATHER FORECAST. ♦! ♦ j 4 FAIR txxlay and tomorrow; ♦) i probably WARMER. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* EXEMPTIONS ALLOWED FOR . DEPENDENT CHILDREN WASHINGTON, D. June 15—An ! income tax exemption of S2OO for each' dependent child of taxable parent;;] and a reduction of the two-cent stamj, tax on bank checks to one cent, were 1 decisions reached by the senate fl-j nance committee revising the war tax bill today. PI T V V edition! ALL RAILROADS MUST GUT DOWN EXTRA JRAFFIC ATLANTA, Ga., June 15.—The opera tion of all the big trunk line railroads over the entire country as a great con tinental railroad ssytem, the elimina tion of all duplicate transportation ser vice, and the conservation down to the finest possible point of economy of the fuel and euqipment of all railroads a general war measure and to meet the necessary demands of the government, was an insight into the inside condi tions presented to the Georgia railroad commission late yesterday by E. H- Copeland, first vice president of the Southern railway system, who is here from Washington to present the South ern’s reasons for asking approval of elimination of certain local service la this state. In so many words. Mr. Copelandt made it c.ear to the commission and to the number of local delegations wh>> v.ere present to protest the intended action, that, if the Georgia railroa** commission does not grant the request made, it will be thit a matter of a short, time when the federal government it self not only will do what the South ern is now trying to do, .but will go far beyond that and will take over and operate the railroads for purely mili tary purposes, and then will come the elimination of all kinds of service that j in the least conflicts with war move ments. Mr. Copeland directed attention (to the commission in Washington, ap pointed by the big trunk lines of the . country, as a directing board for lian ■ Cling the country’s railroad traffic, and" r said if the plans under which this t board are now working do not suc . cessfully meet the government require . menta, then the federal governmen* . will then stej> in and take the abcoluU control. This, Mr . Copeland says, means operation of all railroads for troop movements, for war supplies and for munitions. Then it will not be a question of serving any patron or pa tions, but that the government wiK do a general traffic business on thr railroads only when it finds it conven ient to do so, between war department business —which will be practically none at all. Immediately upon completion of Vio* I President Copeland's presentation ««* | the railroad commission of the inside 1 story of the seriousness ot the war land railroad situation in this country fa remarkable act of patriotism occur ' red. H. D. Shackleford, who wus (present as the general representative ] with a blanket objection and protest t > be filed by the United Commercial Travelers’ association, announced to I the commission his desire to withdraw ! all protest that had been filed by the IT. P. A. to the proposed reduction of I duplicated passenger service on the Southern system. Mb. Shackleford, who is chairman of the railroad com mittee of the organization for the Southeast, said the T. P. A. organiza tion did not realize the situation; tha’ Mr. Copeland’s statement was a reve lation to him, and he would withdraw and leave the situation entirely in the hands of the state commission, be lieving it to be a patriotic body, and that the duty of the people right now is patriotism and his organization is a patriotic one. NEW ARMY NOT TO BE CALLED “VOLUNTEER," BUT “DRAFTED" ATLANTA. Ga.. June 15.—Hereafter I it seems the United States army wiH i not be known as the "regular” army, us | of old, but will be known as the “vol unteers,” if a statebent of an armv officer to an Atlanta friend is l<» be [ taken seriously. The Atlantian said something- about the “regulars.” and the army officer corrected him. saying: "You mean th*i- Ivolunteer army?” To which the At i lantian replied: “No. I don't mean the national guard; I mean the regulars.” | ‘‘Well, that doesn't make any ’ence,” replied the officer. "All regr- Mars are volunteers, just as much as ] the national guard, for every man now in the army was a volunteer. There - 'fore they are the volunteers. The ar ' my that will be raised by the conscrip tion act will be called the drafted ar |®y.” NUMBER 143